Ilona Papava
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIlona Papava is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building product-focused full‑stack systems at scale, currently tech-leading Meta’s new REST and Graph API efforts. She has a strong backend pedigree—contributing to high-profile open source like Facebook’s mcrouter and shipping infrastructure and services across Instagram, Portal, Workrooms and Workplace. At Instagram she led teams delivering digital collectibles and creator-facing features, and at Portal/Workrooms she combined frontend and spatial-audio prototypes to create collaborative real‑time experiences. Known for pragmatic refactoring and avoiding brittle dependencies, she blends hands‑on coding with cross‑functional product strategy and roadmap ownership.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Higher School of Economics
Russian, English
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
networking10
refactor9
performance-optimization9
refactoring9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
facebook/mcrouter
Jul 2016 - Aug 2016
Mcrouter is a memcached protocol router for scaling memcached deployments.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ilona contributed to the `mcrouter` project by implementing features and fixing bugs related to statistics and configuration. They added a check to avoid logging batch size statistics when no data is written, and they updated the code to support hostnames with the `-H` option. Additionally, the user refactored the code by moving functions and classes to avoid circular dependencies and better code organization, specifically around serialization and message handling.
cloudfoundrypcfdeploymentsmemcachedrouter
ilonapapava/textGenerator
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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